You have to feel for Henrik Fisker on some level. An undoubtedly talented car designer — he did the still-stunning BMW Z8 — his name is now sullied by the very high-profile demise of his eponymous company. Fisker Automotive may be in the hands of a Chinese company these days, but now Fisker the Man is back with a new… »11/12/14 8:00pm 11/12/14 8:00pm

Allegedly obsessed with flying cars, it seems like our latest obsession happens to be with turbocharged Pinto motors. So what if an ex-Northrop engineer grafted the wings and ass end of a Cessna Skymaster to a Ford Pinto and had the prototype painted by a hot van artist? Not 1973 enough for you yet? What if we told… »2/22/07 12:30pm 2/22/07 12:30pm

Galpin Motors, a Southern California institution that began with a small Ford dealership in the San Fernando Valley, showed up with a few of their Galpinized custom vehicles at the Los Angeles Auto Show. One was pretty cool, in a kitschy, Barris sort of way. Two others applied already-tired cliches that prove the… »1/05/06 11:30pm 1/05/06 11:30pm